INTRODUCTION: The
Free Indological Collection (TFIC) includes thousands of rare
and valuable books on all areas of Indology including art and culture,
literature, history, scriptures, ethics, music and philosophy. Many
books are in Sanskrit, some are translations of important Sanskrit
works, and others are treatises in English and Indian languages, on different Indological topics.

TFIC comes from many sources including the digitization projects at the DLI, ASI, RSS etc and also includes the digitization and cataloging work of many
individuals. The TFIC team is now putting these compilations together for easy access and adding new books from other
sources.

We would like to encourage long term commitment by both scholarly and general readers to the study of these valuable books.

We also sincerely applaud the efforts of all the digital repositories and many individuals who, over the years, toiled on their own, unasked and unsung, to produce these books.

Books placed in the public domain but in generally inaccessible, unreliable or now defunct digital repositories.

Out of print multi-volume sets whose individual volumes
are held by different libraries, so that all volumes aren't available in a
single place or are misclassified, but were located, cleaned and compiled in
one place by the TFIC team.

Books available in inconvenient formats such as single
page images or in pieces in different repositories that we compiled and
post-processed and so on.

Some collections at the TFIC are linked below. It is estimated that between 2000-3000 books will soon be available at the TFIC. The TFIC is provided in addition to the thousands of documents, books and other materials already provided at this site. TFIC's primary home is currently at The Internet Archive.

Any TFIC book sourced from another online or offline repository and provided to you by TFIC, is provided under commonly held Fair
Use guidelines for individual educational or research use. We believe that the
book is in the public domain and public dissemination was the intent of the
original repository. We applaud and support their work wholeheartedly and
only provide books at the TFIC sites to make them available to even
more readers. We believe that cataloging plays a big part in finding valuable
books and try to facilitate that, through our TFIC group efforts. In some cases,
the original sources are no longer online or are very hard to access, or
marked up in or provided in Indian languages, rather than the more widely
used English language. TFIC tries to address these needs too. Our intent is to
aid all these repositories and digitization projects and is in no way to
undercut them. Therefore, this declaration precedes all our books.

Note that we provide books and other materials because, to the best of our
knowledge, they are in the public domain, in our jurisdiction. We also provide our materials free of cost. However,
before downloading and using anything, you must verify that it is legal for you, in
your jurisdiction, to access and use this copy of the book. Please do not
download a book in error. We may not be held responsible for any
copyright or other legal violations. Placing this notice in the front of every
book as well on this website, serves to both alert you, and to relieve us of any responsibility.
If you are the intellectual property owner of any book in our
collection, please email us, if you have any objections to how we present or
provide the book here, or to our providing the book at all. We shall work
with you immediately.

-The TFIC Team.

If you have scans, ebooks, files, audio of Vedic chants, rites (excluding devotional music) or other material that is out of copyright or you have the rights to publish, and would like to upload to this collection, please notify us at dli.downloader[@]yahoo.com. Also let us know if you have uploaded books at archive.org and would like to move them to the TFIC, so that they come up more often in searches and are found by more readers.